The Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, commonly known as MOM, is a research federation under the auspices of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the CNRS, as well as the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, the ENS de Lyon, the Université Jean-Monnet de St-Étienne and the Aix-Marseille Université.
Its areas of research concern the study of ancient societies in all their aspects, from prehistory to the medieval world, and its fields of study cover the Mediterranean countries, the Near and Middle East and mainland France.
The Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux (MOM) is a research federation that brings together 3 laboratories and the Lyon office of the IRAA, 6 shared research support services and 7 technological platforms.
The ArAr
The ArAr. Archaeology and Archaeometry laboratory brings together prehistorians, Gallo-Roman and medieval archaeologists, sedimentologists and petrographers, physicists and chemists specialising in materials analysis and Carbon-14 dating. Its work is supported by its analysis laboratories and the skills of its archaeological teams. Its programmes focus on territorial organisation, ceramology and the organisation of religious space.
www.arar.mom.fr
The Archéorient
The Archéorient, Environments and Societies of the Ancient East laboratory is a multi-disciplinary research centre specialising in the ancient sciences. Archéorient brings together researchers working on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near and Middle East in the fields of prehistory, archaeology, philology, geography, palaeoenvironment, archaeozoology, archaeobotany and biological anthropology from the Neolithic period to the end of the Iron Age.
www.archeorient.mom.fr
The HiSoMA
The HiSoMA laboratory, Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, conducts research based on both texts and archaeological documentation. Members of the laboratory carry out research into various aspects, particularly religious and institutional, of the history of the Mediterranean, from the end of the Bronze Age to the 7th century AD. Deeply involved in the development of digital humanities, the laboratory is developing digital corpora of ancient sources.
www.hisoma.mom.fr